Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-25


fra case of goods; you may sell an exit
roll of silk; but the trouble Is, you ma
have to throw your soul to boot IN u
bargain.
Again counsel all clerks to
CONQUER THE TRIALS
of their particular positions. One gres
trial for clerks is the reconsideration
customers. There are people vino are Ell
tirsly polite everywhere else, but CRU
and dictatorial and contemplate whe
they 90 into a store to buy anything
There are thousands of men and wome
who 90 from store to store to price thing
without any idea of purchase. They an
not satisfied until every roll OF goods na
been brought down and they have polnte
out its real or imaginary defects. The
try ON all kinds of kid gloves and 'retc
them out of shape, and they put on al
STYLES of eloaks and walk to the mirror
see how it would look, and then they sal
out of the store saying: II will not tax
it to-day" which means II don't want
at all. =" leaving the clerk amid wreck Q
ribbons and laces, and cloths, to smootl
ont five hundred dollars worth OF goods
not one cent of which did that man
woman buy or expect buy. Now cal
that dishonesty on the part OF the Gus
toner. If a boy runs into stor
and takes roll of cloth of tn,
counter and sneaks out into the street, yol
all Join in the cry pell-mell: "StOp, thief
When see you 90 into store, not ex
pecting to buy anything, but to pricl
things, stealing the time OF the clerk, anC
stealing the time of his employer, say
too: "Stop, thiefr' If l were asket
which class of persons most need the grac'
of God amid their annOyances, l woult
say: DRY goods clerks" All the indig
nation of customers about the high price!
comes on the clerk. For instance: A
great war comes. The manufactures art
closed. The people go of to battle. The
price of goods runs up. A customer comes
into a store. Goods have gone up. How
much is that worth?" "A dollar. ." "A
dollar! Outrageous. A dollar" Why
who is to blame for the fact that it has goi
to be q dollar? Does the indignation e
out to the manufacturers on the banks o.
the Merrimac because they have closed up
No. Does the indignation 60 out toward
the employer, who is ont at his country
seat? No. 1t comes on the clerk. he
got up the war. Helevied the taxes. He
puts up the rents. OF course the clerk.
Then great trial comes to clerks in the
fact that they see
THE PARsIMONIOUs SIDE OF HUMAN Ma
TIRE
You talk about lies behind the counter
there are Just rs many lies before the
counter. Augustine speaks Of man who
advertised that he would, on certain oc-
casion, tell the people what was in their
hearts. A great crowd gathered, and he
stepped to the front and said: 81 will tell
what is in your hearts: To buy cheap and
sell dearu' y, people Of Brooklyn. lay not
aside your urbanity when you come into
store. Treat the clerks like gentlemen
and ladies-prOving yourself to be gen
tleman or lady. Remember, that if the
prices are high and your purse is lean, that
is no fault of the clerks. And if you have
a son or daughter amid those perplexities
of commercial life and such a one comes
home all worn out, be lenient, and know
that the martyr at the stake no more GER
tainly needs the grace of God than our
young people amid the seyen-times heated
exasperatiOls OF clerks lie.
Then there are all the trials which come
to clerks from the treatment of
INCONsIDERATE EMPLOYEES.
There are professed Christian men III
this city who dave no more regard for theil
clerks than they have for the scales or
which the sugars are weighed. A clerk is
no more than so much store furniture
No consideration for their rights or their
interests. Not one word of encourage
ment from sunrise to sunset, nor from
January TO December. But when any
thing goes wrong-a streak of dust on the
counter, or a box with The cover of
thunder showers of scolding Men imper
ious, capriciOus, cranky towards theil
clerks-their whole manner as much as t.
say: "All the interest | have in you is tC
see what can get out of you"
Then there are all the trials of incOm-
petent wages. Some OF you remember
when the war broke out all merchandise
went up, and merchants were made mil.
liOnaireS in six months by the simple rise
in the value ofgOods. Did the clerks get
advantage OF that rise? Sometimes, not
always. I saw estates gathered in those
times, over which the curse of God has
hung ever since. The cry of unpaid men
and women in those stores reached the
Lord of Sabaoth, and the indignation of
God has been around those establishments
ever since; Tumbling in the carriage
wheels, flashing in the chandeliers, glow
ing from the crimson upholstery, thun.
dering in the long roll of the ten-pin
alley. Such men may build up palaces OF
merchandise heaven high, but after awhile
a disaster will come along and will put
one hand on this pillar, and another hand
on that pillar, and throw itself forward
until down will come the whole structure,
crushing the worshippers as grapes are
mashed in a wine-press.
Then there are boys in establishments
who are ruined-in prosperous establish
ments-ruined by their
LACK OF COMPENSATION.
In how many prosperous stores it has been
for the last twenty years that boys were
given just enough money to learn them
how to steal! Some were seized upon by
the police. The vast majority of instances
were not known. The head of the firm
asked Where is George now?" 80, he
isn't here any more" A lad might better
starve to death on blasted heath than
take one cent from his employer. Woe be
to that employer who unnecessarily puts a
temptation in a boys way. There have
been great establishments in these cities
building marble palaces, their owners dy-
ing worth millions, and millions and mil
lions, who made q vast amount of theiy
estate out of the blood, and muscle, and
nerve OF half paid clerks. Such men as
we'll, will not mention any name. But
| mean men who have gathered up vast
estates at the expense of the people
who were ground under their heel.
"O," say such merchants, eff you don't
like it here, then go and get q
my grip, and l mean to hold you; you
can't get any other place" o, what a
contrast we see between such men and
those Christian merchants of Brooklyn and
New York who to-day are sympathetic
with their clerks-when they pay the sal.
ary, acting in this way: This salary that
give you is not all my interest in you.
You are an immortal man; you are an i'm
mortal woman; am interested in your
present and your everlasting welfare;
want you to understand that, if am a